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The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning.

The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Eligibility
All doctoral level graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department. Graduate students in fields where the Master’s degree is the terminal degree, such as the MFA in art, are also eligible. (Nominees must hold student status in January 2017.)

Applicants must demonstrate:

1. Leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning,
with a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility; and
2. Leadership or potential leadership in the development of others as leaders,
scholars, and citizens.

Nomination Process
A faculty member or administrator must nominate the student, with a supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator. The following materials must be submitted for an application to be considered:

a nomination letter from a faculty member or administrator;
2. a supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator;
3. a statement from the student indicating how he or she meets the award criteria;
4. a copy of the student’s curriculum vitae.

Nominations can be submitted anytime, but no later than October 3, 2016. Nominees must also complete an online form with all contact information. Only complete nominations will be considered.

The Award
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award provides financial support for graduate students to attend AAC&U’s 2017 Annual Meeting, which will be held in San Francisco, California, January 25–28, 2017. All award recipients are required to attend the conference.

The award includes travel, lodging, conference registration, and a one-year affiliation with AAC&U, including subscriptions to all AAC&U periodicals.

The purpose of these recognitions is to encourage, catalyze, support, share, and leverage high quality research. “IARSLCE Recognition of Exemplary Contribution through Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement” is categorized into 3 types: Dissertation, Early Career, and Distinguished Career. Recognitions also include ten (10) graduate student scholarships.

Nominations for 2016 recognitions and applications for graduate student scholarships are due by May 24, 2016 and should be submitted electronically to info@researchslce.org; self-nominations are welcome. All nominees and scholarship applicants will be notified of their status in July. All nominees and recipients for the four categories of recognitions will be invited to share about their work at the annual conference (September 26-28, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA). For details about the conference, please visit http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/.

The Distinguished Career Recognition acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through a body of work that has broad and deep impact on service-learning and community engagement-including the study of it, the practice of it, and the cultures and systems within which it is undertaken.

The Early Career Recognition acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through an emerging body of work that has begun to demonstrate broad and deep impact on service-learning and community engagement – including the study of it, the practice of it, and the cultures and/or systems within which it is undertaken.

The Dissertation Recognition acknowledges and celebrates a dissertation that advances research on service-learning and community engagement through rigorous and innovative inquiry and has the potential for impact – including on the study of it, the practice of it, and/or the cultures and systems within which it is undertaken.

Ten $500 Graduate Student Scholarships are provided by the Association to support graduate student participation in the 2016 IARSLCE Conference in New Orleans, LA. Scholarship recipients fall into two categories: (a) early graduate students and (b) advanced graduate students. A total of ten scholarships will be awarded across the two categories. Within each category, at least one scholarship will be awarded to an international graduate student based outside the US.

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The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, an independent nonprofit educational organization, invites nominations for the 2016 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award. The award recognizes institutions that are achieving breadth and depth of civic engagement through mutually transformational partnerships that address issues of public concern at any level from the local to the global.

In reviewing nominations, The Washington Center and the selection committee will consider the extent to which institutions are building strategic community partnerships that demonstrate the following:

Leadership and innovation in defining and addressing issues of public concern;

Vision for change that is systemic and sustainable;

Depth and breadth of institutional commitment.

The Washington Center has presented the Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards each year since 2009. Past awardees have reflected diverse institutional profiles.

Learn more about past recipients and how to nominate an institution here. The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 27th.

Five winners will receive one full scholarship for a student to participate in The Washington Center’s Inside Washington 2017: The Presidential Inauguration Academic Seminar in January 2017.

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#CLDE16: 2016 Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement MeetingThursday, June 1, 2016 to Saturday, June 4, 2016
Indianapolis Marriott Downtown · Indianapolis, IndianaADP along with our community college colleagues in The Democracy Commitment and student affairs colleagues at NASPA are partnering for the second year in a row on a conference to advance the civic learning and engagement work of higher education. This year’s meeting includes pre-conference institutes focused on assessment, political engagement, dialogue and deliberation, economic inequality, and students. This conference is ideal for faculty and administrators that are leading civic engagement efforts on campus and for those wishing to advance their professional development in this area.

Register online here. Early-bird deadline is April 25th. Check out the Pre-Conference Institutes on Assessment, Political Engagement, Dialogue & Deliberation, Economic Inequality and one especially for students!

You can book your hotel room by May 10th at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown here.

Become a Mentor / Mentee at the #CLDE16 Meeting: submit your interest here.

Nominations for Three ADP National Awards Due April 1, 2015

The William M. Plater Award for Leadership in Civic Engagementis given each year to an AASCU chief academic officer in recognition of his or her leadership in advancing the civic mission of the campus. Chief academic officers may be nominated by anyone on the campus. The president or chancellor must endorse the nomination. Nominations materials for the 2016 Plater Award must be submitted electronically by April 1, 2016.

The John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagementis presented annually to an emerging leader in the civic engagement field from an AASCU institution. Emerging Leaders may be nominated by anyone. Nomination materials for the 2016 Saltmarsh Award must besubmitted electronically by April 1, 2016.

The Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagementis presented annually to a senior faculty member in the civic engagement field from an AASCU institution. Senior ADP Faculty members may be nominated by anyone. The provost or chief academic officer must endorse the nomination. Nomination materials for the 2016 Burch Award must besubmitted electronically by April 1, 2016.

Stewardship of Public Lands: Politics and the Yellowstone Ecosystem Faculty SeminarAugust 1 – August 6, 2016 | Yellowstone National ParkThis is the ADP Stewardship of Public Lands initiative’s 11th annual faculty seminar in Yellowstone. Participants will participate in a study of political conflict in the world’s first national park; examine the political controversies over wolves, grizzlies, snowmobiles, and bison; meet and listen to stakeholders on all sides; and learn how to design courses to help prepare students to understand and engage in conflict management and resolution over national and local public resources controversies.

Bloomsburg University (Penn.): Pennsylvania has made it easier for residents to register to vote and students can register online with TurboVote. Learn more here.

Northeastern Illinois University: held its Second Economic Inequality Initiative event to encourage students to confront, through critical discussion, the roots of economic inequality — and to challenge students to adopt an active role in addressing their solutions.

University of Central Oklahoma:The UCO American Democracy Project organized efforts throughout the fall semester that resulted in 3.8 percent of Central’s full-time student body registering to vote for the first time.

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh: Along with ADP, Oshkosh has created a webpage to inform their students on local voting information.

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Come for the Pizza, Stay for the Politics: The Future of the Union
By Mary Sorenson, Doctoral Candidate and Instructor, University of Missouri, Columbia. She discusses about 800 students, faculty, and community members gathered in the Brown Ballroom at Illinois State University (ISU) to watch President Obama deliver his final State of the Union (SOTU) address. Find out more here.

ADP/TDC Engage the Election 2016 Initiative Powered by icitizenADP is excited to announce a year-long non-partisan Engage the Election 2016 partnership with The Democracy Commitment (TDC) and icitizen, a leading civic engagement app. Events will include a set of webinars, a pre-conference institute at the 2016 CLDE meeting and a set of presidential debate-watch events in the fall. We hope to increase voter registration and turnout and to ensure that students on our campuses are informed and engaged voters. For more information: http://www.aascu.org/programs/ADP/EngageTheElection/

8th Annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies | Apply by March 18th
The eighth annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies will take place from June 13 to June 23, 2016 at Tufts University. It will be an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary seminar bringing together faculty, advanced graduate students, and practitioners from many countries and diverse fields of study.

The American Democracy Project (ADP) is a multi-campus initiative focused on public higher education’s role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy. The project began in 2003 as an initiative of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), in partnership with The New York Times.

The goal of the American Democracy Project is to produce graduates who are committed to being knowledgeable, involved citizens in their communities. Since its inception, ADP has hosted 13 national and 18 regional meetings, a national assessment project, and hundreds of campus initiatives including voter education and registration, curriculum revision projects, campus audits, special days of action and reflection, speaker series and many recognition and award programs.